[root at localhost.localdomain: Anacron job 'cron.daily' on loki]

Derek Broughton news at pointerstop.ca
Tue Feb 21 22:41:29 UTC 2006


Bas van Gils wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 03:22:13PM +0000, Colin Watson wrote:
>> > > ----- Forwarded message from Anacron <root at localhost.localdomain>
>> > > -----
>> > > 
>> > > From: Anacron <root at localhost.localdomain>
>> > ...
>> > > /etc/cron.daily/man-db:
>> > > mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man1/rmic.1.gz is a dangling symlink
>> > > 
>> > > 
>> > > ----- End forwarded message -----
>> > 
>> > mandb runs out of /etc/cron.daily/man-db to update the man database. 
>> > You don't really want to remove it (though, for a personal-use machine
>> > it
>> > probably doesn't need to run that often).  You can simply delete the
>> > dangling symlink (left behind when a package was changed - odds are
>> > it'll automatically get fixed at some future date, but there's no need
>> > to wait).
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I've been looking for that dangling symblink but couldn't find it so I'm
> not exactly sure what to remove.

It's exactly what it says it is: /usr/share/man/man1/rmic.1.gz

If there's nothing there, it's already fixed.
-- 
derek





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